A location is a place your stock lives: a warehouse, an outlet, a production floor, an office. Every quantity in the system is location-aware, so you always know not just how much you have but where it is, and moving stock between places is a tracked event rather than a guess.
What you will learn
- What a location is and its types
- How stock is tracked per location
- The status of the finer bin and shelf hierarchy
How it behaves
Location-aware stock
Locations are typed, office, warehouse, production, outlet or gallery, and one is marked primary. Stock is tracked per location at the most fundamental level, so the same SKU has a real, separate count in each place. Moving units from one location to another is a movement adjustment, which posts to the stock ledger like any other change.
Honesty note. A finer storage hierarchy beneath the location, warehouses subdivided into shelves and bins, with lots grouping received batches, is planned. Today, stock is tracked to the location level (and to groups and attributes within it), which is enough to answer where stock is by place; bin-level addressing is a roadmap item, and the pages on warehouse explorer, put-away and pick-pack describe that planned layer.
Edge cases and good practice
- Location versus group. Location is the physical place; group is the status within it. An item carries both.
- One primary location anchors defaults; set it to your main warehouse.
- Mirror real sites as locations so movements reflect actual transfers.
Related
- How to: Set up locations
- Reference: Stock Adjustment (moving between locations)
- Reference: Stock Finder (stock by location)